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Win a $25 gift card to the Cal Student Store!
Get to know the Physical Sciences and Engineering Libraries by taking our 10 question quiz! Learn about the resources we offer and the variety of study spaces we have available at the Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Physics – Astronomy, Engineering, Mathematics – Statistics, and Earth Sciences & Maps Libraries.
Four lucky students will win $25 gift cards to the Cal Student Store!
The quiz is open until September 6, 12:00 PM. See the full quiz rules at bit.ly/epslibquiz.
Fall Library Workshops
The Library is offering a series of tours and workshops for the fall semester. Workshops include introductions to finding electronic resources, citation management software like RefWorks, Zotero, and EndNote, and data management. For the full schedule, see our Events and Workshops calendar, and sign up to be alerted when new workshops become available.
Engineering Library closed July 5
The Engineering Library will be closed on July 5, 2013, for scheduled maintenance to upgrade our wireless network. We will reopen for our regular summer hours on Monday, July 8, at 9:00 AM. To find other campus libraries that will be open on July 5, check our library calendar.
SAE Digital Library
The SAE Digital Library is now available to the UC Berkeley community. Our access to the Digital Library includes full text of SAE Technical Papers from 1998 to the present and full text of journal papers from the SAE International Journals from 2011 to present. The Digital Library also indexes other automotive-related journals and the SAE Ground Vehicle Standards, but full text of these papers is not included in our subscription.
If you need technical papers published before 1998, please contact the Engineering Library for access.
Help improve the Library website!
Got 5 minutes to spare?
Help us improve the UC Berkeley Libraries website!
Take our short online survey by December 14th and enter to win one of five $20 gift cards to the FSM Cafe in Moffitt Library. The survey is open to everyone and takes less than five minutes to complete.
Water Resources Collections and Archives
The Water Resources Collections and Archives (WRCA) is a unique library that collects contemporary and historic materials on all aspects of water resources. This collection was formerly named Water Resources Center Archives, located at UC Berkeley. It is now located at UC Riverside and CSU San Bernardino; its collections remain available to researchers around the world.
The WRCA’s collection guides and digitized images can be found in the Online Archive of California. Print materials can be found and requested using Melvyl, the UC Libraries catalog.
Knovel e-books currently unavailable
Knovel online library is currently unavailable and users are unable to access ebook PDFs online. Knovel expects the problem to be fixed by the end of the week (9/14/2012).
**UPDATE** 9/13 Knovel access has been restored. Please contact us if you are still having access problems.
Library workshops
The Engineering Library is offering several drop-in workshops open to all students. No registration required.
Location: Engineering Library Training Room, 110 Bechtel Engineering Center
Tuesday 8/21
10:00 –10:30 AM Citation Management
10:30 – 11:00 AM E-Resources
11:00 – 11:30 AM Data Management
2:00 – 2:30 PM Citation Management
2:30 – 3:00 PM E-Resources
3:00 – 3:30 PM Data Management
Thursday 8/23
10:00 –10:30 AM Citation Management
10:30 – 11:00 AM E-Resources
11:00 – 11:30 AM Data Management
Citation Management
Covers the basics of creating and importing references, formatting and inserting references into your papers, and creating a correctly formatted bibliography.
E-Resources
Introduction to engineering literature databases, how to effectively search Google Scholar, finding e-books, and set up off-campus access.
Data Management
Focuses on preparing data management plans, long term storage and backup of research data, and ways of sharing your data to improve your research impact.
Introducing NTRL 3.0
The National Technical Reports Library, our go-to source for technical reports from government agencies, introduced a new user interface this week.
NTRL 3.0 features:
- Faceted search results
- Limit search to only full-text items
- Expansion of searchable fields
- Limit search using NTIS subject categories
- … and more!
See what’s new at https://ntrl.ntis.gov/.
Foundations and Trends
Foundations and Trends features a series of titles that each cover a major branch of a scientific discipline and offers current, state-of-the-art review articles by opinion/research leaders in their field (including several Berkeley faculty). Articles are concisely written and are online with the references linked to the original source, making it easy to link out and read other relevant articles and books.
The Foundations and Trends series include topics like Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Communications and Information Theory, and more. For a full list of series available to UC Berkeley, see the WorldCat catalog.